昨天我们谈到，当神要我们耐心等候祂对祷告和困难的回应时，那是基督徒生命中最难熬的时段。当前的这一刻，天堂对你来说是否毫无意义？你向神求告的紧急问题是否没有得到回应？那么请与我一起来看哈巴谷如何发现自己身处这样的境况，以及他怎样去渡过。

从今天的经文可以明显看到，虽然哈巴谷在处理属灵迷惘方面已经走了很长的路，但他的视野仍未清晰。肯定了神「眼目清洁，不看邪僻，不看奸恶」（13节）后，他提出另一个恼人的问题。《当代圣经》（Living Bible）这样说：「你不能容许任何形式的罪，会在罪吞没我们时袖手旁观吗？当邪恶的人消灭比他们更好的人时，你会沉默吗？」

很明显的，哈巴谷在神会使用残暴的迦勒底人来惩罚祂的百姓这件事上仍然挣扎不已。哈巴谷的意思是：「主啊，如果你的眼睛真是太清洁，不看邪恶，那为甚么你容许迦勒底人这样对待你的百姓呢？犹大可能是坏的，但迦勒底人比他们坏一千倍。」哈巴谷因为神使用不义的人来洁净义人而感到疑惑，他不是唯一一个有这种感受的人。要记得，如果神不能以某个方法来触动我们，祂就会尝试另一个方法。因为神实在太爱我们，祂不会让我们在原地踏步。

Yesterday we said that those times when God leaves us waiting for an answer to our prayers and questions are some of the heavens seem the most difficult of our Christian life. Do like brass to you right now? Have the urgent questions you have put to God gone unanswered? Then look with me at how Habakkuk found himself in this same situation - and how he came through it.

It is obvious from the verse before us today that although Habakkuk had come a long way in dealing with the fact of spiritual confusion, his perspective is still not clear. After affirming the fact that God is of "purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness" (v.13, NKJ), he presents another provoking question. The Living Bible puts it like this: "Will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy those who are better than they?"

Clearly Habakkuk is still struggling with this idea that God is going to use the cruel Chaldeans to punish His people. What he is really saying is this: "If it is true, O Lord, that Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, then how can you allow the Chaldeans to do this to Your people? Judah might be bad, but the Chaldeans are a thousand times worse." Habakkuk is not the only one to be perplexed over the fact that God uses the unrighteous to refine the righteous. If God can't get to us one way, then He will try another. He loves us too much to let us stay as we are.